Viva is celebrating its 25th year of caring in 2021, and we are excited to launch the Viva ‘Donate Your Birthday Campaign’. This campaign allows you to have your birthday with a purpose, and to allow people in your network to understand more about our work. In order to best support you in this campaign, […]
Tag: fundraising
25 ways you can change children’s lives in 2021
We’ve been protecting children together now for 25 years. Born from a single encounter with street children in Bolivia in the early 90s, Viva’s vision and mission to see children able to reach their God-given potential remains our focus to this day. Our 25-year milestone arrives at a time of great threat for children and […]
Church profile: Banbury Community Church
We’re so grateful for many churches faithfully supporting our work with vulnerable children. One of these is Banbury Community Church (BCC), in Oxfordshire, UK, and they told us why they are passionate about partnering with Viva. Why Viva? We’ve been supporting Viva since 2004 through an initial link with a previous BCC leader. We appreciate […]
Supporter profile: meet Rosey
During lockdown, I noticed how many folk were putting out unwanted stuff for the taking. So I decided to put out our excess plants. They all went! I enjoyed doing this so much, that I thought I would continue, but to ask for donations to Viva. I had just retired and had slipped into depression. […]
Together in canoes
Paddles in hand and muscles flexed, a Viva team comprising six staff members and volunteers joined with a larger group of other charity fundraisers to canoe an incredible 127 miles, over six days, down the River Thames from Witney to Westminster. Between them Team Viva raised a brilliant £4,250 for our global work with vulnerable […]
Running for a reason
Last month, 12 runners completed their runs in the 渣打香港馬拉松 Standard Chartered HK Marathon in Hong Kong – drumming up more than HKD 100,000 for Viva’s work with vulnerable children. We’re really grateful for those who took part and those who supported with sponsorship and in other ways too. Here, two of the runners share […]
Making mooncakes for a cause
BY RACHAEL MA Last month, we held a fundraising mooncake-making workshop in Hong Kong in celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Mooncakes are a rich delicacy in the Chinese culture in which a salted egg yolk is wrapped in a thick lotus seed paste to emulate the full moon. In the Chinese culture, you will find that […]
Fundraising with Blooms, Bikes, Boutiques and Bakes!
BY MOLLY BEEGOO Fundraising can seem like a daunting challenge. People envision enormous events that are timetabled to the very last second. In reality, fundraising can be near effortless. You can raise money for Viva with just a few clicks on the computer when online shopping (see Amazon Smile or Give as you Live), half […]
Christmas in June: that’s magic!
An Oxfordshire church has raised nearly £1,000 for Viva Christmas Parties by holding an evening that included a combination of magic, comedy, curry and a bit of ukulele. More than 100 people attended the event put on by Grove Free Evangelical Church, who likes to get into the festive spirit earlier than most! Fiona Massie […]
Confessions of a fundraiser… part 2
BY LIZ CROSS Before Christmas, I came clean in my blog ‘Confessions of a fundraiser’ and admitted that I hadn’t fulfilled my promise of personally fundraising for Viva’s work in 2017. I also pledged to do better the coming year by taking up running… Here’s an update. In February, my mystery friend who was responsible […]